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The ultimate fan souvenir? Mark Maddock just sent me this photo of a ‘Deep Purple touring stage’ which someone has just put up for auction online in America. It seems to be the welded metal subframe, ply boarding and a bunch of old lights! It also seems to be kept outdoors so better get some Hammerite ready if you do go for it! I checked but the garage here is already full so we won’t be bidding…

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I’d not forgotten that we have rolled around to an important anniversary, honest. Just shocked to realise we’d got the date wrong for all these years…! Seriously. It’s not so easy to find something new to say, particularly as I’ve been raving about this album for fifty years now myself. Many of us have […]

This photo has been floating about on the web for some time, but thanks to Mike Richards we can locate this to Newcastle City Hall on the 1980 Down To Earth tour. This is mainly because he spotted a mate in the balcony in the pic he went to school with! It was taken by […]

Our I Spy Car spotter days are behind us here at DTB so it’s taken us a while to catch up with this Nissan, badged the Highway Star. It was launched back in 1997 but wasn’t sold in the UK, except as an grey import (wikipedia says imports were “mainly driven by car enthusiasts, or […]

I assume we’re not the only ones to have used some of the current lockdown to do a bit of tidying. Simon tells us he found three dust masks in his shed while he was having a good sort out over Easter, the first time he’s been able to tackle this for over a year, […]

Derek Lawrence, Deep Purple’s first producer, deal maker, guiding light and without whom… died last week, May 13th 2020. It’s taken me a few days to get to grips with the news and put a few words together for this site. It is sometimes easy to overlook Mk 1’s contributions to the band’s catalogue but […]

This Is Rock magazine in Spain have kicked off the In Rock 50th anniversary with a cover feature in their latest issue, although inside it is just a single page looking back. Nice for cover collectors though. My thanks to Hugh Gilmour for the news, even if it is starting to make some of us […]

So exactly why should we be marking the passing of Little Richard here? Well, Deep Purple In Rock would not have been the same without Richard’s trail blazing contributions to rock’n roll for starters. Speed King in particular owes even more, with Ian Gillan quoting lyrics from Little Richard classics throughout (to brilliant effect). Deep […]

Tonight would have been Deep Purple’s live debut in Japan, the first of two shows in Osaka in May 1972. Tickets available at 1400 Yen to 2300 Yen (or 3300 Yen for a box seat). BUT the three shows were cancelled some time before due to a backlog in America where the band were trying […]

Ian Paice has joined the long list of musicians who have taken a leaf out of the younger generation’s book and begun putting material up on the web to entertain everyone, is promising more broadcasts to come. He was always entertaining on shows like Super Drumming and The Ian Paice Drum Tribe (has he been […]

This tickled us seen by Simon in a dusty shop window over in Bridlington a couple of years ago. It’s probably still there (the shop is just by the walk way at the top of the harbour). A set of strange ‘Dad’ mugs with various faux adverts on the side and themed handles. So this […]